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Re:Reason React 0.8 by fulafel on Thursday May 14, 2020 @01:57AM (#23175869)
This meritocratic model is unfortunately not really how language popularity plays out in the real world. At least not on career-length timescales.
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Re:Reason React 0.8 by Scarbutt on Thursday May 14, 2020 @02:24AM (#23176071)
Was referring to Facebook usage only, like in, why isn't it used more at FB?
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Re:Reason React 0.8 by vosper on Thursday May 14, 2020 @03:42AM (#23176619)
I asked a similar question recently, one of the maintainers was nice enough to reply with some info. Perhaps this sheds some light: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23116754
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Re:Reason React 0.8 by fulafel on Thursday May 14, 2020 @10:47AM (#23180184)
I think the point stands doubly strong in case of Facebook. They're a PHP shop after all.
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Re:Reason React 0.8 by Scarbutt on Thursday May 14, 2020 @11:54AM (#23181022)
PHP doesn't run in the browser...
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Re:Reason React 0.8 by fulafel on Thursday May 14, 2020 @03:24PM (#23184154)
Sure, but using it in the backend tells us that there is no language meritocracy at FB.
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Re:Reason React 0.8 by jordwalke on Thursday May 14, 2020 @03:41AM (#23176611)
It is.
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